1926, welcome to @thewaroncars.bsky.social

The scary thing is that this pipe is only from 1959 and failed prematurely, a growing trend. There are still pipes downtown from the 1870s to be replaced. We currently replace about 20km of pipe each year, but we laid down 1800km of pipe in the 50s and 60s. 5X our current replacement rate.

Say me and 3 others wanted to go to the Rideau centre right now… $16.40 or

Open a bread and wine shop called JFC.

Ice better today ❤️@rideaucanalskate.bsky.social

Family of 4 headed downtown on a Sunday for some wandering, shopping and exploration: $16.40 each way, $32.80 round trip. Parking for 2h $6 And we wonder why ppl drive.

How the fuck is Charlie Kirk in the same fucking sentence as Jane Goodall????

Terms I'd like the media to leave behind in 2025 : "non-consensual sex" (It's rape. You mean rape, so say that. We don't call bar fights 'non-consensual boxing' for a reason!) "underage girls" (Girls are a category on their own. If you mean girl, say girl. If you mean woman, say woman.)

Closing for good, they opened their doors to the buy nothing community and said, come get stuff.

Driver charged in hit-and-run crash in Vanier that injured pedestrian

I generally don't like to post screenshots of text, but someone posted this in our local Strong Towns group and it was too good not to share here.

4 Spice Blends created for a local LARP auction. Bone Dust, Herbs de Provence, Augustus’ Poudre Forte, and a Moroccan Spice Blend.

I shouldn’t have to “Donate” to my local libraries. But with @mayormarksutcliffe.bsky.social austerity budgets and money badly directed to things like Lansdowne 2.0, I guess that’s where we’re at? No “Donate” button for the Police though?

make a Bond movie casual Four-eyes Only

The Wraps of Khan

Update: @ottawacitizen.com has confirmed Kìwekì Point was not damaged by a snow plow but by a "ROGUE SCHOOL BUS": "[The NCC] said that they are in contact with the police and have shared surveillance camera footage that shows 'a school bus illegally driving on the Kìwekì Point Pathway'.”

Deep Dish 9” You’ve just opened up a Star Trek Themed Restaurant. What are you calling it?

This is like a normal subcompact car. Not even one marketed as “0-100 in 4 seconds”. It can easily go 174 km/h. Why? 120 km/h is the maximum legal speed it seems in Canada.

Look at the books my daughter-in-law found for me

Never let me into your house or I make memes about it…

Nothing like ignoring your driving responsibilities on Christmas Eve. Hopefully does injure or kill someone to have the media pick it up as “a sad accident just before Christmas” #DistractedDriving #autowa

Winter Cycling Network Conditions 6-7am 🎅❄️🚲 Trillium Path: Light snow cover (sections 50% width) PoW: Light Snow cover (50% width) Rideau Canal Eastern Path: Snow patches Hog's Back: Snow (50% width) Brookfield: Light snow cover No intersections clear #ottbiketraffic

“You spend $2500 on a toy??? 😂😂😂” laughs a man sitting high up in his lifted F-350 Masculine Dominator Stallion Edition

"The fares will increase until ridership improves!"

Wow, Sutcliffe is on a bender heading to every nook and cranny to post "I love these guys", "Best food Type A since the last post of a food Type A", "I wore my suit jacket and dress shoes around the Glebe while others wore parkas, nothing weird about that"....

Day 22 of Augutus' Advent Calendar is Augustus' own version of Poudre Forte. The Privateer's take combining several versions of this blend. #LARPing #LARP #Feast #Spices kenwalker.github.io/AugustusAdve...

What’s up in the Rideau River hood..

My timeline is full of pedestrians getting killed by drivers 😢 @brettbergie.bsky.social @nyc.streetsblog.org

Kids who got new bikes for Christmas, "super excited" to walk them around the city that's too dangerous to ride in. www.creativebyrovelo.com/therovelorec...

Day 19 is Mushroom Pasties! LARPing Spice and Recipe Advent Calendar kenwalker.github.io/AugustusAdve...

Saw both of these within less than a quarter mile of each other. Cars just aren’t practical here. We have winter.

Anyone else feel like this right now

I’m in Canada and the number of US friends I have that are doing this is scary.

What a difference! Our city decided to start clearing a missing connection in our winter cycle network and now I have no excuse not to ride all year. #OttBike

The dude who made an electric car guy YouTube channel I used to watch moved from San Diego to Madrid this year. In his first video I’ve seen about the move, he opens by saying “let me tell you, the Urbanists are 100% right” and goes on to extoll how much walkability has improved his family’s lives

Dodge profits off of death and destruction on our publicly funded streets with machines that are designed with power that has no rightful place in our transportation world. Fuck. This. Company.

One of these things is not like the other

A presentation to city council that separated bike infrastructure really is better for businesses

Calm. Nothing but calm. Arrive at twilight (Lac Poisson Blanc). Oil, resin on panel, 2018. 48x 60. sarahhattonartist.com #CANartist #art #artshare #landscape #canadianart #canadianartist #artists #painting #painter #sketchbox #CanadaSky 🇨🇦

Me: “These drivers should have been driving to the conditions” Every News Article: “The storm caused this”

Wow, let’s enshrine wide, fast road in front of schools because, m’uh parking (which should be banned in front of schools)

Almost 3% of drivers were impaired and removed from the road. 1/4 easily received various other offences. This is happening all around you whether you’re waiting for a bus, walking, rolling, riding a bike, driving your vehicle. Every 100 cars you count…

🚇UPDATE, Line 2 Alert: Due to a switch issue, ➡️ Train service is not running between Dow's Lake & Carleton. ➡️ R2 bus service is available between Bayview & Carleton. 1/2

One of the biggest reasons why better cities are hard to achieve is the powerful proven psychology of “status quo bias.” No matter how bad an idea was in the first place, once it’s in place, our “loss aversion” means we will fight irrationally hard to protect it from any change to something better.

The woman, injured. The lazy driver in a too big vehicle, will get a failure to yield ticket and nothing else.

These massive blunt-nosed bastard trucks need to be taxed out of existence. They're a consistent threat to the safety of pedestrians and cyclists (especially children).

I made some Christmas cookies.

Shout out to the woman driving north in the bike lane on O’Connor (for those not in the know, O’Connor is a one-way street going south) who then made a left turn through a red light with a little wave of thanks for everybody honking at her #Autowa

I’m not very confident in our train service @glengower.ca it seems to be down a lot. How will we convince people to use this vs a car.